{"id":163,"date":"2016-07-13T19:50:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww2.cheshireandnorthwaleskt.org.uk\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2016-08-01T14:33:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T13:33:16","slug":"chester","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cheshireandnorthwaleskt.org.uk\/index.php\/preceptories\/chester\/","title":{"rendered":"Grosvenor Preceptory No. 132"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Established 9th April 1875<\/p>\n

Meeting Dates: 1st Tuesday in February, March, October and December<\/p>\n

Installation: October<\/p>\n

Meeting at:<\/p>\n

Freemasons Hall,
\n2 Queen Street,
\nChester
\nCheshire
\nCH1 3LG<\/p>\n

01244 324956<\/p>\n

This Preceptory was consecrated on 9th September 1875 at the Grosvenor Hotel, Chester, by the Provincial Prior, Major Cornwall-Legh.\u00a0 The Eminent Preceptor was installed by C J Bannister, the Provincial Prior of Northumberland and Durham. The Warrant is dated 9th April 1875.\u00a0 The authority for the consecration was contained in a letter from the Great Chancellor dated 3rd September.<\/p>\n

The Preceptory originally met in the Grosvenor Hotel but soon moved to Queen Street, Chester.\u00a0 The Preceptory has been described as having a distinctly clerical thread, and over the 1ast 50 years at least nine clerics have been installed\u00a0 including Rev Kenneth Charles White, Rev Canon J A Walker, Rev Canon Michael Rylands, who was Great Prelate in 1977, Rev Canon Leslie John Forster and Rev Kenneth Charles Taylor a past Provincial Prelate. Dr Horace Ingham was Eminent Preceptor in 1956 and Joseph Hawkes, Deputy Provincial Grand Master was a member. Sir Knight C L S Cornwall-Legh was installed a Knight.\n<\/p><\/div>\n